A/N: Soo sorry for updating later than I usually do. It's a combination of a large Writer's Block, the three day Twilight Zone marathon on the SciFi channel, and the holiday weekend.
On a side note, rabbits are taking over my gardens!
There was a mother rabbit that ran away from the flower bed when I went out there with the dog, but her little baby stayed. It eventually went and found its mother.
Then the next day I was down the dead flowers and found two almost newborn rabbits in a little depression…but the home was cut away, so I had to move them further down. The mother found them though, phew.
And today when I was watering the veggie garden, the first baby rabbit appeared out of nowhere in the garden! It's even fenced in… and it couldn't get out. So there was me, in my bare feet, running back and forth among the tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, and zucchini trying to catch a hold of something that could fit in the palm of my hand and outrun me.
It disappeared, but then I found it caught where the chicken wire was rolled up, so after freeing it from there, it was still running around at the other end, jumping at the fence, then (poof) it got out when I wasn't looking. Bizarre. Really need to figure that out...
Ahh, I rambled. Well, welcome to a writer's life. Carry on.
Part 4
"Where have you been?" Charlotte's temper was barely contained as she clenched her fists.
"You know when you look at me like that, you really start looking like Scully when she's pissed at Mulder. The red hair completes the look." Lennon looked around, dark eyes avoiding looking at her superior any longer than she had to.
Charlotte continued, "I smell coffee on you."
"You never cease to amaze me." She saw what she was looking for in the corner and practically dove to it.
Madison shook her head, "You really did go to the mess hall, one of the most populated places…"
"No new crises have popped up." Lennon bit her lip at the half-truth and dug around in her pack for no other reason than for something to do. She could feel eyes burning on her back.
Madison knelt beside her, "How's the leg?"
"Hurts."
"Let me look then."
Lennon sat on the floor and let Madison clean the arrow wound up, hissing at the burn of rubbing alcohol.
Charlotte didn't quite believe her, but decided to go with it. If anything serious happened, Lennon would have been the first one to freak out. "You're staying here for the next couple hours, Madge and I will start the sweep of Level 28."
Lennon looked up from the floor, "I am perfectly fit to bunny hunt."
"You're staying here until the arrow's powers wear off."
Lennon swallowed, knowing they weren't going to, at least not in the way Charlie believed.
Madison smiled and stood, "Besides, you can play around with weapons."
They all couldn't help but to laugh a little as Charlotte and Madge left. As soon as they did, Lennon went straight into sulking.
Her team didn't trust her, and they were partly right, she was keeping the ship with Rodney a secret. They probably thought she'd throw herself at the guy she'd be shipped with or something… well, they were wrong. It wasn't going to happen, it wasn't going to affect her work, she was determined for it not to, and to prevent it from going anywhere. Dr. Rodney McKay was quite safe from any advances.
Though she did have the rather strong urge to track him down, glomp him, get lost in his blue eyes, kiss his lips, and take him shopping. The man really needed a new wardrobe.
She browsed the store room, kicking up dust everywhere, and stumbled across a hoard of tranquilizer guns.
"We could use these… Maybe tranq Rodney and take-"
She smacked herself in the head to prevent the thought from going any further.
Xxx
…Couple hours later…
"Behind you!"
Madison spun around and zatted the winged ship bunny twice, before it could fire its notched arrow. "Thanks."
"Yeah." Charlotte peeked through a shelf to the corner. Fluffy rabbit fur of two shades of pink, white feathers, tufts of cotton, and chewed bits of cloth lined the floors and walls as a bed, extending under the metal shelves.
"How could they not have noticed a whole den on the same level as the Gate?" Madison question as she looked over to the little army of ship bunnies. All on their haunches gripping their bows and firing at the Busters.
"It's tucked away, out of sight."
Madison let loose a volley of shots while little red arrows flew at them, "They don't just stay in here."
Charlotte ducked an arrow that flew at her head through the opening above the contents of the shelf, "Course not, but it doesn't mean they're seen." She fired a few shots from the zat.
"You mean to tell me every person in this place has not noticed pink bunnies running around?
"Yeah."
"I'm used to fandoms where the bunnies have taken over, so I have to be missing something about them in healthy ones." Madison had to move a foot over when some of the bunnies started to make her position.
Charlotte explained, never taking her eyes off the bunnies, "Sometimes SEP leaks over into other universes, especially scifi ones."
She started the assault again, "'K, but since when did the Hitchhiker Guide's canon tech start doing that?"
Charlotte shrugged, "Coincided with the plot bunny plague, but it's not official, just something I've run across."
"Not official?"
Both of them dove to the ground, lying head-to-head, as a sudden heavy concentration of arrows were fired at them, all aimed well to fly through the shelves.
Charlotte answered, peeking under the bottom shelf to see little pink feet, "Specifically."
"But the Crossover is."
"Yeah. The crossover bunnies make our job that much harder, especially in the Buffy Universes."
"Totally."
They resumed firing from their prone positions.
Madison observed, "The field generator should be around here somewhere."
"Uh, guys?" Lennon's hectic voice came over their radios.
Charlotte responded quickly, "We're busy."
"You're always busy."
"When we're on a job, yeah. Call back later." The volley of arrows began dying down as they whittled away at the bunnies' numbers.
"It's important! I got kicked out of our hideaway."
"By who?"
"A couple shipped by a smut bunny!"
…Several minutes earlier…
The store of explosives couldn't even distract Lennon's mind from drifting to thoughts of Rodney, from wanting to be around him. After getting all pretty in the stereotypical way, which so wasn't her.
So she was banging her head against the edge of shelf, and it temporarily went away.
It was one thing she did want to think about. It went way beyond anything she signed off on as possible outcomes of the mission. Rodney? Ack! It couldn't have been anyone else but a self-absorbed sexist jerk. Someone had to be messing around with her.
She looked up to where the sky would be if she wasn't hundreds of feet below the surface, "One of these days, Techie!"
The lights flickered and shut off, causing her to jump at the unexpected response. "Huh, so Techie made a new friend." She scoffed, "Just what I needed."
She heard the door slide open and noises trailed in, smacking noises specifically. She peered through the line of metal shelves and immediately wished she didn't. There was just enough light from the always-on orange-yellow bulb over the doorway to see a shortish man in one of those short-sleeve Air Force shirts and a woman dressed in a nurse's outfit not issued by Stargate Command practically in each other's clothes.
Her hand flew up to cover her eyes, which were already permanently scarred anyway.
"All these weapons just make me so incredibly…" The 'nurse' finished her sentence with a moan.
Lennon gagged and she knew she had to get out of there before they really started playing nurse. She grabbed her insanely heavy pack as there were shuffling noises. Plugging her ears, she started to make her way around the couple to the door. But stuff still filtered through, including giggles, moans, and shelves being pushed against.
"Walter…"
"My naughty nurse…" More kissing noises followed the unzipping of something Lennon did not want to imagine, and she bolted out of the door, wanting to scream and throw up the bagel she had earlier.
Keying her radio, she flew down the hall.
…Back to the Present…
"They didn't actually kick you out…" At least, that's what Charlotte hoped.
"What was I gonna do? Watch?"
"There were other options." Madison peered over the shelf, still lying down, but ducked her head when an arrow came straight at her.
"Don't make me sick."
Charlotte asked, "Where are you now?"
"Bathroom."
Madison picked her head back up, "Perfect place to get sick."
"Get down here."
"But what about me being shipped?" Lennon caught herself, "The possibility…"
"Screw it. Just be careful. We're in the third door to your left on the right side of the hall."
"Got it."
The radio disconnected and the arrows completely stopped. Madison and Charlotte looked over to the den, seeing only fallen bunnies.
"Fluff and smut bunnies…" Madison shook her head at the two colors of ship bunnies, the fluff bunnies being a lighter pink and furrier while the smut bunnies were darker and smoother.
"Lethal combination."
They slowly rose to their feet and stretched.
"That's the cleanest destruction of a den I've seen."
Charlotte nodded, "It's a relief not to have bunny bits all over us."
A/N: Also sorry it was shorter, but I figured you all would want it up sooner rather than later.
Oooh I should mention SEP is from Life, Universe, and Everything in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. From Wikipedia for all you who haven't read the books (which you should!): -When somebody, or something, is surrounded by a SEP field, the human brain perceives it as "somebody else's problem", and therefore will be incapable of paying attention to the object (or even seeing it, or recognizing its existence) unless it is being specifically looked for. In order for this to work, however, the object being hidden by the field must be sufficiently bizarre.-
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